Prochoice groups declared Monday a national day of mourning following the murder of Dr. George Tiller, a provider of late-term abortions who was long a target of antiabortion zealots.
Though President Obama met with Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas on May 28, there’s little evidence that the United States is encouraging real progress toward a two-state solution.
Obama’s signature economic reforms are under siege. Without a grassroots challenge to business as usual, we won’t get the change we were promised, much less the change we need.
It’s too early to say whether the murder of a Kansas abortion provider will trigger another wave of a type of violence last seen in the 1990s. It is not too early to be struck by the parallels.
In the end, the vote was silly or sad, but for eighteen weeks on American Idol, Adam Lambert was Everyman and Everygayman, skating the edge of ecstasy and terror.
China has changed enormously since the 1989 massacre, but the Communist Party continues to deny what happened. Americans, too, continue to misremember a complex event.
To gauge her judicial temperament, take a close look at Sonia Sotomayor’s rulings in sports. Left-wing in theory, right-wing in practice–no wonder she clicked so smoothly with the Obama administration.
In the end, the vote was silly or sad, but for eighteen weeks on American Idol, Adam Lambert was Everyman and Everygayman, skating the edge of ecstasy and terror.